Jean Piaget
Psychologist, Philosopher
"Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual."
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Lil B
Rapper
"I'm a real positive person. Non-violent. Love everybody. I'm definitely an asset to the world."
George Sand
Novelist, Memoirist
"The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession."
Sylvester Stallone
Actor, Filmmaker
"Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist."
Adrienne Rich
Poet, Essayist, Feminist
"An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other."
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"The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution."
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"[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent."
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"Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent"
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"If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violent is eternal .... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion."
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"Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way."
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"Violence recoils on the violent."
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"We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that a violent explosion rocked our cosmic neighborhood at the time of our birth, and it's quite possible that without it, our stable, stately solar system would never exist at all."
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"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind."
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"We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe."
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"Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'"
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"The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous."
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"A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one."
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"And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new."
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"We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity"
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"Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being."
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"Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds."
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"There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life."
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"The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one."
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"I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were."
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"This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings."
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